Brendan vs Josh

AUS AUS · Open Men · 3 results

Brendan Bell

1:17:00 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
843rd of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Josh Talbot

1:17:00 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
841st of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Brendan: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Josh: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
BrendanJoshedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Brendan and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brendan: strongest on Pull (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 2%).Josh: strongest on Lunges (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 31%).

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Part Brendan: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 53% 44%
Push 73% 50%
Pull 77% 53%
BBJ 57% 73%
Row 57% 31%
Carry 2% 32%
Lunges 66% 85%
Wall balls 74% 71%
Roxzone 73% 67%
Runs 77% 70%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Brendan Josh
SkiErg 53% 44%
Sled push 73% 50%
Sled pull 77% 53%
Burpee broad jump 57% 73%
Row 57% 31%
Farmers carry 2% 32%
Sandbag lunges 66% 85%
Wall balls 74% 71%
Roxzone (moving) 73% 67%
Runs (8 km) 77% 70%

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

Brendan · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:17:00
2:214:264:112:194:374:044:315:034:304:434:223:564:204:455:305:258:04
Josh · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:17:00
2:344:304:152:394:364:434:364:284:435:004:392:204:354:055:285:358:22
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Brendan · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 34:22 running, 34:41 at the stations and 8:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:25) and the shortest the sled push (2:19).Below, Josh · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 35:26 running, 33:20 at the stations and 8:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:35).

See the numbers
Part Brendan · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Josh · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:21 2:34
SkiErg 4:26 4:30
Run 2 4:11 4:15
Sled push 2:19 2:39
Run 3 4:37 4:36
Sled pull 4:04 4:43
Run 4 4:31 4:36
Burpee broad jump 5:03 4:28
Run 5 4:30 4:43
Row 4:43 5:00
Run 6 4:22 4:39
Farmers carry 3:56 2:20
Run 7 4:20 4:35
Sandbag lunges 4:45 4:05
Run 8 5:30 5:28
Wall balls 5:25 5:35
Roxzone 8:04 8:22
Finish 1:17:00 1:17:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brendan Josh Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:17:00 1:17:00 level
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